Improvement in foot-rests for chairs



J. H. TRA IS. IFOOT-RE-STIS-FOR CHAIRS.

No. 184,559. Patented Now-21,1876.

NFETERS. PHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON D C.

1a STATES l JOSEPH H. TRAVIS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN FOOT-RESTS FOR CHAIRS.

Specification forming'part of Letters Patent No. 184.559, dated November21, 1876; application filed February 17, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH H. TRAVIS, ofBoston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Foot-Rest Chairs, ofwhich the following is a specification:

This invention relates to that class of footrest chairs in which thefoot-rest is carried by a frame arranged to slide underneath thechair-seat, an example of which chairs is found in the Letters Patentissued to me dated October 22, 1872, N 0. 132,503.

The invention consists in the combination, with the ordinary or usualfoot or leg rest of the chairs referred to, of a supplementary leg orfoot rest, which is arranged on the carrying or sliding frame, to bebrought into a position above the usual foot-rest of the frame, andthere supported for the occupant of the chair to place and rest his legsupon it, and

when not wanted to be brought and laid and supported within therest-carrying frame, and

foot-rest, and also out of any possibility of interference with theordinary inward and out- 1 ward sliding of the rest-carrying framerelatively to the chair-seat.

In the accompanying plate of drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectionfrom front to rear of a chair having my improved combination of foot orleg rests, which are both shown as in the position for their respectiveuse; Fig. 2, a plan view of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a view of thefoot-rcst-carrying frame detached from the chair, and showing thesupplementary foot as laid within the carrying-frame of the ordinaryfoot-rest; Fig. 4, a similar view to Fig. 3, with the ordinary foot-restof the chair in a reversed position on its carrying 'frame from thatshown in Fig, 3, and the whole ready to be slid under the chair-seat;Figs. 5 and 6, views in detail, showing the lock of the supplementaryfoot-rest to the ordinary foot-rest when the former is laid or foldeddown within the common carryingframe, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

In the drawings, A represents a chair; B, a foot or leg rest, and O thecarrying-frame for the leg-rest B, each and all arranged as fullydescribed and shown in the Letters Patent hereinbefore referred to, andtherefore needing no more particular description; D, a

supplementary foot or leg rest. This supplementary rest is fixed betweentwo arms, a, both of which are hung and turn on pivots b in the sides 0of the leg-rest 13, between such sides 0 and the inside of the siderails E E of the carrying-frame O.

The supplementary rest D is thus hun g so that it can describe an arc ofa circle in the direction of the length of the sliding frame and of thefoot-rest B, and according as its arms are longer or shorter, its sweepwill be at a greater or less distance from the plane of the rest. Therest-arms project slightly beyond the pivots b, so that their ends atcan make an abutment as, for instance, see Fig. 1) against projections f(in this case the pivotal connection between the leg-rest B and itscarrying-frame O) of the rest B, and in such abutment maintain thesupplementary restD against any further movement toward the front orouter end of the leg-rest frame 0, and thus hold it in position for useby the occupant of the chair.

The abutment f above described does not prevent swinging thesupplementary rest D towardthe front of the chair A, and, with a properlength of the arms a, there disposing it in and between the side rails Eof the legrest frame 0, just back of the then inner end 9 of theleg-rest, where, by spring-catches l on the sides 0 of the leg-rest B,it is locked into positionagainst accidental displacement in the use ofthe chair for any of its desired purposes outside of the additionalpurposes of the supplementary leg-rest D.

Obviously, the supplementary leg-rest may be held against movement, whenin either its upper or lower positions herein described, by many devicesor constructions of parts different from those herein particularlyspecified; and, furthermore, a supplementary leg-rest, D, substantiallysuch in construction and arrangement as that herein described, may beapplied to sliding leg or foot rests for chairs .of other forms andclasses than that herein particularly referred to.

The supplementary rest herein described enables the occupant of thechair, should he with such a rest, of a supplementary rest, D, desire,to secure a rest for his legs at a highapplied, combined, and arrangedsubstaner plane than thatseeured by the rest B. tially as and for thepurpose described.

Having now described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Pat- J. H. TRAVIS. ent, is- Witnesses:

In chairs having a leg-rest, B, arranged to EDWIN W. BROWN, slide underthe chair-seat, the combination, GEO. H. EARL.

